I see that a lot of people gave this movie low ratings. No idea why because this is a fun old school adventure movie for children. Our kids (5 and 8 years old) both liked the story a lot and found it interesting to follow the adventures of the child actors.
The movie is about friendship and not about historical accuracy.
Of course it feels like a silly comedy for grown ups that want to watch something sophisticated but that does not mean that it isn't well suited for its target audience, which clearly is young kids. The whole purpose of children's movies is for them to be able to enter a fantasy world, not to worry about cultural appropriation or some other fancy idea that's currently en vogue.
The Young Chief Winnetou
2022 [GERMAN]
Action / Adventure / Family / Western
Plot summary
Winnetou's tribe is in dire straits. There is a threat of famine as the all-important buffalo herds are now failing. As the headman's son, young Winnetou wants to prove to his father Intschu-chuna how brave he is and how great a warrior he can be, because he thinks his son still has a lot to learn. To save his tribe, he goes on a dangerous adventure.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
January 03, 2023 at 07:24 PM
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Very nice movie for children
Blast from the (Communist) Past
This is quite a trip down the memory lane: way back in the '60s of last century a series of movies plied their way through the Soviet bloc, in which Winnetou was the noble & brave & wise Apache chief & warrior. His equally impressive sidekick, a white cowboy going by the quaint ridiculous moniker as Old Shatterhand (he was famed for his one-punch K. O. ability), was played by an American actor Lex Barker, while Winnetou was played by a French actor Pierre Brice. The movies were made by an East German production company, shot mostly in Yugoslav locations (not unlike Sergio Leone's spaghetti Western shot in Spain & Sicily). Dialog tracks were dubbed in German, but for local distribution in specific Eastern Bloc countries they got subtitled. The movies and the main characters were based on a series of books written in the late XiX c. By one Karol May, a German pulp writer who had written them mostly while dodging the law, as he was quite a scam artist most of his life. The movies (and the books which were widely available in translations throughout the Soviet Bloc) were a welcome - though quite silly - entertainment fodder in the region where genuine Westerns from America were rarely allowed for distribution, for both monetary and ideological reasons. It was quite funny listening to dialogs between characters spoken in German, and watching the secondary characters (the Apache tribesmen) played by swarthy Serbs and Macedonians.
Again a ridiculous movie from German producers
I am really sorry to say that as a German, but the German movie industry is further on its way to make ridiculous, infantil movies only. It is NOT funny to wear ridiculous closes in a movie. It is NOT funny to speak in a silly way in a movie. It is NOT funny to have a ridicolous haircut in a movie. It is neither funny nor helpful to exaggerate all acting, as there were only completely stupid people in the audience. German film industry considers its audience as infantil and too stupid to understand even easiest plots. They consider children not to be able to watch an at least little bit demanding movie. I feel mocked by these directors, producers and actors.